it works.....Survival of the fittest works no matter the math. There are 95% of the planet eating the exact opposite way. Change for humans occurs slowly unless their survival depends upon it. Eat fat get thin avoid me.

More demand leads to higher prices in the short run. That can lead to an expansion of the industry, an economising of costs and improvement of techniques of production, increased supply, etc - bringing prices down again (perhaps even below the original price if previously the market was quite niche.) However, external factors in this case -such as the scarcity of land- would come into play, restricting supply - so I'd expect prices to remain higher.

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There are seven billion people on the planet. In the Paleolithic, there were several million.

The math doesn't work.

Now, this is not a real criticism of paleo - there probably isn't a sustainable way to deal with seven billion people. So whenever a vegan or someone says "But we can't all eat that way!" simply reply, "yep, and we can't all drive cars either." The point being that the world is quite an unfair place, and in the next few generations we'll either solve the fundamental issue (energy and overpopulation) or we won't. Your diet will be totally irrelevant to how things turn out.

A better question is, "what would a sustainable paleo diet look like?" and that's more interesting. We'd have to return the midwest to pasture, and may be we could do it in America in isolation. There is simply no way India or China would be able to do it, though, even putting aside religious concerns. Too many people and not enough land.

it works.....Survival of the fittest works no matter the math. There are 95% of the planet eating the exact opposite way. Change for humans occurs slowly unless their survival depends upon it. Eat fat get thin avoid me.

Here's a news flash for you. The current system of massive monoculture cultivation dependent on fossil fuel based fertilization is unsustainable. Couple that with the fact that billions of people would starve to death if it were not for Western technology and foreign aid and the picture is clear to anyone with the courage to accept reality; there are entirely too many humanoids on this planet. The sooner we come to terms with this ugly truth the sooner we can salvage our environment and health.

More demand leads to higher prices in the short run. That can lead to an expansion of the industry, an economising of costs and improvement of techniques of production, increased supply, etc - bringing prices down again (perhaps even below the original price if previously the market was quite niche.) However, external factors in this case -such as the scarcity of land- would come into play, restricting supply - so I'd expect prices to remain higher.